Sentence examples for focus on spectacle from inspiring English sources
Though I used to find it thrilling to go see a Broadway musical, I've hardly seen anything other than a revival in the past 15 years because of the trendy focus on spectacle.
We now look to TV to tell stories about (relatively) ordinary people's lives and indiscretions, because it has the screentime to do so more thoroughly and intelligently, leaving movies to focus on spectacle.
Angela Watercutter of Wired called it the "most awesome movie of the summer", a "fist-pumping, awe-inspiring ride", and opined that its focus on spectacle rather than characterization "simply does not matter" in the summer blockbuster context.
It focused on spectacle and pageantry, and with composers like Jean-Baptiste Lully cranking out an opera a year, it was eminently disposable.
With theaters no longer locked into showing a single studio's films and with the major studios focusing on spectacles to lure people from their television sets, the new company found its niche in the B movies abandoned by big studios, offering such films as "The Beast With a Million Eyes" and "Girls in Prison".
The park is symptomatic of a dispiriting focus on the spectacle as opposed to the history and antiquity of Islam and cultural legacy in general.
Or be done with plays and focus on pure spectacle, an arena of the arts which is no less worthy?
Although the media continues to focus on the spectacle, it is also now taking seriously Occupy Wall Street's concerns about widening inequality and corporate influence.
The Passion and many other modern-day Christ re-imaginings fail because they focus on the spectacle of the crucifixion, but they don't explore the empathetic act dying for the good of humankind at the core of its story.
"Rather than focus on the spectacle of a Baltimore in flames, I tried to turn the attention to where it should be and should remain: on the agents of systemic violence and injustices that would cause a violent reaction like this in the first place," Anthony told VICE.
So I methodically scan through the birds, picking up the scarce black noddy and the comical-looking red-footed booby, before focusing on the spectacle as a whole.
